Manga/Anime as Big Finish Audios - Your Picks

There's something comforting about the thought of Sailor Moon done in audio. Like the perfect thing to listen to on a rainy day. Katy Manning as Luna and Colin Baker as Artemis. The girl who played Dorothy in Wizard of Oz who's name escapes me as Sailor Moon. Juliet Landau as any one of the awesome female villains in the series. Warren Brown or James Joyce as Tuxedo Mask. It just seems like a good fit to me.

Of course, one cast decision I think is absolutely, dead set, beyond any questioning:
Colin Baker as Major Armstrong. Seriously, imagine these lines coming out of Colin's mouth...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSCmfIl-sHg

Gold doesn't even begin to describe it!

Robotech. With the original TV cast. That would be my dream line.

The Japanese have been doing audio dramas for ages. They've always recognized that their seiyuu are by their very nature voice actors, so why not utilize them in original audio drama tie-ins and increase those record sales? (And then later CD sales, and I guess MP3 sales nowadays.)

Robotech was what got me into anime and will always be my favorite, and since Harmony Gold has not had a very good track record of getting new Robotech animation finished, why not bring the original voice actors into the studio and start doing some of these projects as audio dramas? Heck, I'd be thrilled with them translating and rerecording the Japanese Macross audio dramas!

But as it was recently pointed out in the Stargate thread, audio dramas just aren't very popular in the US. Every now and then I'd try to rally people around the idea back when Robotech.com used to have message boards, and no one ever bit. Least of all the Harmony Gold staff.

I realize Big Finish could probably never get the American cast to England to record these, and I'm sure I would adjust to recastings. Ideally I'd like it if they could at least get just one or two of the original cast and then surround them with new characters. The Robotech universe is big enough for infinite side stories. But the idea of my favorite anime series in the amazingly talented hands of Big Finish would just bring a tear of joy to my eye.

Really?!? Sorry I missed it! Nice to know I'm not the only one.

Of course I'm no lawyer so I might be completely mistaken, but Harmony Gold's been able to make new comics and novels using the Macross characters, so I would imagine that would apply to audios as well. And even if it didn't, there are only legal issues with the Macross part; they could do stories centered around the Southern Cross or Mospeada portions with no problems at all. Plus as I mentioned before, there's always room for side stories in the same universe with new characters.

As for the Sony movie deal, there's been so little reported on that I can't even begin to speculate on what affect it could have on anything.

I saw this subject and at first ignored it, I am no fan of manga.

From an outsiders point of view, manga seems extremely sexist, turning every female character I've ever seen into some kind of under age dream girl.

Given this, I would be against, even disturbed by the idea of BF audio's being made into manga.

I said I was an outsider and no fan, I also used the word "seems". I didn't characterise manga, I said how it seems to me.

That it appeals to you as a woman and that it appears from what you say to cater to a wider audience that other forms of animation is great.

But there is a but, whilst I have not sought out manga of any sort, I cannot recall even once seeing a manga portrayal of a woman that wasn't sexualised, perhaps I have been unfortunate in that this is all I have seen, and it's just not true, but I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

I was not intending, and I really don't believe I was insulting manga or you. Saying something "seems" is to say that it "gives the impression of being something or having a particular quality" it doesn't say that it "is". I know I am not qualified to say it "is".

I have never sought out manga, and to be explicit I have never read or watched any manga of any sort, ignoring my thoughts on it, the style just doesn't appeal, but then I've never read or been a fan of any comic stuff (of any style except Beano etc) even on the big screen.

Your comment that I insult manga has the effect of insulting me, it characterises me as small minded, but doesn't address the concern I raise, and the concern is genuine (i.e. I really do have that concern) and the concern will not go away unless at some point I am able to develop an alternative point of view, knowing that mature, intelligent female fans of magna exists goes some way to suggest to me I need to think again, but does not actually address my concern, which is that manga portrayal of women is exclusively sexual.

I would be all to happy to have my views widened on this subject, especially as manga has become so important and mainstream in sci-fi/fantasy circles I identify myself with, but merely assertively dismissing my concerns as invalid doesn't do that.

I don't wish to be rude, but I don't like the direction you two are taking my thread. I simply set it up as a means for those were into manga and anime on these forums to just have a fun chit chat about dream projects. If you want to have debates on the sexualixation of the medium, kindly move it to another thread or resolve it on your own pages. I'm sure neither of you meant anything by it, but I'm not comfortable with this direction.

Very sorry NuclesofSwarm. Jason & I were definitely not trying to disrupt your thread. But I will end the conversation here.